Launching Collection (page 4)

Either HMS Hibernia or HMS Africa with a temporary launch ra
Either HMS Hibernia or HMS Africa with a temporary launching ramp for a Short S38

Launching Bluebird at Bathurst. Miss Delphine Reynolds and her pilot, W.G. Pudney, took off from Hanworth on 1 March 1931 in Blackburn Bluebird IV, G-ABGF

Lockheed F-94C-1-LO Starfire after launching a salvo of 2 75
Lockheed F-94C-1-LO Starfire after launching a salvo of 2.75 inch rockets. A T-33A, 51-4263, flies alongside

Lockheed P2V-6B Neptune 128415
Lockheed P2V-6B Neptune, 128415, launching a Petrel ASM

Short-Bristow Crusader N226 at Rochester after launching
Short-Bristow Crusader, N226, at Rochester after launching on 18 April 1927. Date: 1927

Martin Viking 4 rocket prior to launching
View through the blockhouse window of the nose of Martin Viking 4 rocket prior to launching from the deck of the USS Norton Sound

?Savannah? nuclear-powered passenger-cargo ship after launching into the Delaware River at Camden. The Engineer. vol.208 (2). 1959. p.203 Date: 1959

Launching Assault Landing Craft

Spain (1890). Launching of the cruise ship Infanta
" Spain (1890). Launching of the cruise ship " Infanta Maric Teresa" in the shipyard " Astilleros del Nervion" in Bilbao with the presence of the Queen Regent

TENRE, Henry Charles (1864-1926). Launching of a Montgolfier in 1809. Illustration from a 19th century manifesto. Engraving

Ufos / Vaeth / USA
This UFO was seen by Vaeth and others while they were launching a Skyhook balloon Date: 24 April 1949

Launching London Fire Brigade fireboat Massey Shaw
The Massey Shaw was built in 1935 on the Isle of Wight. It was fitted out with its powerful Merryweather pumps in Greenwich, SE London

Lower part of a large captive balloon moored to a launching platform showing network of ropes and balloon basket with about 10 occupants. Date between 1880 and 1890

Launching another victory ship United States Shipping Board, Emergency Fleet Corporation. Poster showing a panoramic view of the launch of the ship Lady Janet.. Date 1918

1903 machine on the launching track at Big Kill Devil Hill, prior to the December 14th trial. Four men from the Kill Devil Hills Lifesaving Station helped move it from the shed to the hill

Long-range view of machine on launching track, showing hangar nearby and hummocky ground of former swamp at Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio. Date 1904 June or July

Start of the first flight of 1905, Orville Wright at controls of the machine, near the hangar at Huffman Prairie. The two figures in the center are probably Wilbur Wright and Charles E. Taylor

Distant view of the Wright airplane just after landing, taken from the starting point, with wing-rest in center of picture and launching rail at right

Launching track on Big Hill, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and north slope of Kill Devil Hill. Date 1903 Dec. 14

Launching track on Big Hill, and north slope of Kill Devil Hill; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Date 1903 Dec. 14

Damaged machine to the right of the launching track at the end of flight 31, piloted by Orville. The tall, white-shirted man in the foreground may be Charles E

The remodeled 1905 Wright machine, altered to allow the operator to assume a sitting position and to provide a seat for a passenger, on the launching track at Kill Devil Hills

Wreck of HMA1, the Royal Navys first airship
The wreck of HMA1, The Mayfly. Built by Vickers, this was the first naval airship built in the UK; work began on it in 1909 at Cavendish Dock

Zoe Ball launching Scout Job Week, London
Zoe Ball launching Scout Job Week near Tower Bridge, London, with a group of Scouts (boys and girls). 1996

The America Cup challengers: Shamrock II launched at Dumbart
A symbol of three kingdoms: the pontoons " Thistle", " Rose" and the yacht " Shamrock II". The Illustrated London News claimed that at the time of publication this was

Launching the Deutschland
Launching of the cruiser Deutschland at Kiel 19/5 1931. Date: 1931

Royal Wedding 1947 - Tatler cover
Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) and her future husband, Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten on one of the last public engagements before their wedding

Coverack Lifeboat
Launching the Coverack Lifeboat, Cornwall, England. Date: 1960s

Submarine launch
Launching of a submarine, Kockums shipyard, Malmo, Sweden, 1921 Date: 1921

Sopwith T1 Cuckoo biplane launching torpedo, WW1
A British Sopwith T1 Cuckoo bomber biplane launching a practice torpedo over the sea towards the end of the First World War. It was powered by a Sunbeam Arab V8 200 horsepower engine. Date: circa 1918

British torpedo boat destroyer launching, Southampton
A British torpedo boat destroyer launching at Southampton a few months before the start of the First World War. It is probably HMS Lance, a Laforey-class destroyer

A street riot on Giltspur Street, London
Crowds attack the carriage in which Mr Sloane is riding as he travels to court, accused of horrendous cruelty to a servant girl

Air Scouts taking off in glider
A Slingsby T.21 Glider taking off with Air Scouts at the controls at Lasham Gliding Centre. 1960s

Scout glider in flight
Slingsby T.21 Glider flying with Air Scouts at the controls at Lasham Gliding Centre. 1960s

Scout operating winch for gliders
A Senior Scout at the controls of a winch used for launching gliders at the Lasham Gliding Centre. 1960s

Launching a huge Japanese kite on a festival day, Japan. Date: circa 1910s

LIFE-BOAT
The Inshore Lifeboat (ILB) Station, Eastbourne, which was built in 1903, seen here with the Royal Navy Lifeboat (RNLB) Beryl Tollemache, which was launched in 1949. Date: 1960s

Persia Launched
Steamship launched at the Robert Napier & Sons shipyard at Govan, Glasgow. At the time she is the largest steamship afloat and wins the Blue Riband in 1856. Date: 3 July 1855

August Gliding

WWI - Launch of a German Torpedo
The launch of a torpedo from the deck of a German warship during World War One

Ship Launch - Szczecin, Poland
The launch of a Uruguayan ship (called the Uruguay ) built for a Uruguayan Shipping company in the Vulcan shipyards at Strettin, Poland (Szczecin)

The launching of the Constantinople Lifeboat
An elder lifeboatman lifts his hammer to strike out the holding peg to launch the Constantinople lifeboat and its team of lifeboatmen down a wooden ramp. The boat is called the Shellu

Princess Louise launching screw-corvette, Druid at Deptfor
Princess Louise (1848-1939) releasing the dog-shore for the launch of the screw-corvette ship, Druid at Deptford Dockyard, London in 1869

V-1 Flying Bomb Launch Site; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing a German V-1 Flying Bomb launch site somewhere on the coast of France, June 1944. In the foreground of this image can be seen a small concrete control building

V-1 Flying Bomb Launch Site, France; Second World War, 194
Photograph showing a German V-1 Flying Bomb launch site near the coast of Normandy, France, June 1944. Two American soldiers can be seen inspecting the sloping launching-ramp

HRH Queen Mary launching R. M. S. Queen Mary, September 1934
Photograph of HRH Queen Mary at the christening and launch of her namesake; previously known as Cunard 534. The Queen can be seen in the centre

Captain Jerninghams Anchor-Firing Mortar, 1846
Engraving of an experiment to test Captain Jerninghams idea to assist the launching of lifeboats. The launching of lifeboats from a beach into heavy breaking surf was often dangerous

Submarine Launching
Launching a Submarine

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